A busy day on the Transcon west of Wyaconda, Missouri.

Five locomotives throttle back as they crest the hill east of Wyaconda, Missouri.

Standing on an old bridge where you can see for a mile in all directions makes this eastbounder on the Transcon even more enjoyable.

A Citirail leaser leads a heavy eastbound train through the undulating terrain of northern Missouri.

Norfolk Southern train 111 squeezes behind the grain elevator at Saint Peters, Missouri after just picking up autoracks at the Wentzville GM plant. This train will be at Luther yard in Saint Loui... (more)

There were four new sequentially numbered locomotives, two on the front and two in the rear, on this NS train headed east on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.

Rolling at 60 mph in the Mississippi River flood plain south of Valmeyer, Illinois.

Ethel, Missouri just after dawn looking out on the Transcon coming off Cardy Hill in northern Missouri.

A 70 mph southbounder on the Chester Sub near Valmeyer, IL.

The H-GALMEM trundles through Old Monroe, Missouri with 582 axles, a big train for the Hannibal Sub.

An ex-ATSF CF7 is moving a string of hoppers at the ADM facility on Prairie Avenue in St. Louis. The conveyor belt going off to the right is used to load barges for passage down the Mississippi R... (more)

A southbound manifest at Baer Road. The nearby detector said this train was 650 axles.

Accelerating out of a meet at Burns, this manifest freight is headed toward St. Louis.

As one train passed me and the other approached, I was hoping they would line up and it actually worked out. The locomotives of a south bound grainer and the DPU of a north bound coal train are ... (more)

Two coal trains pass on the Fountain bridge southeast of St. Louis.